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PRONUNCIATION OF KILOTON

kiloton  [ˈkɪləʊˌtʌn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KILOTON

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Kiloton is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KILOTON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kiloton

TNT equivalent

TNT equivalent is a method of quantifying the energy released in explosions. The "ton of TNT" is a unit of energy equal to 4.184 gigajoules, which is approximately the amount of energy released in the detonation of a ton of TNT. The "megaton of TNT" is a unit of energy equal to 4.184 petajoules. The kiloton and megaton of TNT have traditionally been used to rate the energy output, and hence destructive power, of nuclear weapons and other high-energy events. This unit is written into various nuclear weapon control treaties, and gives a sense of destructiveness as compared with ordinary explosives, like TNT. More recently, it has been used to describe the energy released in other highly destructive events, such as asteroid impacts. However, TNT is not the most energetic of conventional explosives. Dynamite, for example, has about 60% more energy density. This use of the unit named "ton" is now one of energy, and any relationship with some mass of some explosive is relevant only in a historical sense. The use of "kilotonne" is therefore nonsensical, as this use of the term "ton" has been disconnected from its use as a unit of weight.

Definition of kiloton in the English dictionary

The definition of kiloton in the dictionary is one thousand tons. Other definition of kiloton is an explosive power, esp of a nuclear weapon, equal to the power of 1000 tons of TNT.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KILOTON


astun
əˈstʌn
gigaton
ˈɡɪɡəˌtʌn
megaton
ˈmɛɡəˌtʌn
multimegaton
ˌmʌltɪˈmeɡəˌtʌn
multiton
ˈmʌltɪˌtʌn
panton
pænˈtʌn
stun
stʌn
ton
tʌn
tonne
tʌn
tun
tʌn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KILOTON

kilocurie
kilocycle
kilogauss
kilogram
kilogram calorie
kilogramme
kilogray
kilohertz
kilojoule
kilolitre
kilometre
kilometric
kilometrical
kilomole
kiloparsec
kilopascal
kilorad
kilovolt
kilowatt
kilowatt-hour

WORDS THAT END LIKE KILOTON

antiproton
Aston
boston
button
Clinton
cotton
croton
disulfoton
Hamilton
Hilton
Houston
Kingston
melocoton
multiphoton
on the button
peloton
photon
proton
roton
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Synonyms and antonyms of kiloton in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «kiloton» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KILOTON

Find out the translation of kiloton to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kiloton from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kiloton» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

千吨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kilotón
570 millions of speakers

English

kiloton
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

किलोटन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كيلوطن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quilotons
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিস্ফোরণ-শক্তির একক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kilotonne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kiloton
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kilotonne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キロトン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

킬로톤
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kiloton
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiloton
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

kiloton
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किलोटन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kiloton
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kiloton
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kiloton
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kilotone
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κιλοτόνων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kiloton
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kiloton
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kiloton
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kiloton

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOTON»

The term «kiloton» is regularly used and occupies the 65.600 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOTON» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kiloton

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KILOTON»

Discover the use of kiloton in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kiloton and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Kiloton Threat
Based on a lifetime in the U.S. military, LTG (Ret.) William G. Boykin constructs a thrilling, all-too-possible tale based on the tensions arising from Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons.
William G. Boykin, Tom Morrisey, Jerry Boykin, 2011
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Waging Nuclear Peace: The Technology and Politics of Nuclear ...
hardness. The optimum height of detonation can be determined from the curves in figure 6.3, which show the peak overpressures that would occur at different distances from ground zero for different altitude detonations of a one-kiloton bomb.
Robert Ehrlich, 1985
3
80 Kiloton Weapon Yield
Time-spatial distributions have been predicted for the airborne debris from an 80 kiloton nuclear weapon surface burst.
Stephen J. Fountain, 1966
4
Green Planning: An Institutional Analysis of Regional ...
In the Gothenburg Protocol, the Netherlands agreed on a national emission ceiling for ammonia of 128 kiloton per year in 2010 of which 115 kiloton from agricultural sources. 24 The Fourth National Environmental Plan (2001) aimed at 100 ...
Frans Padt, 2007
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Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Figure 4.5 compares a 250 kiloton and a 1 megaton weapon, both of which are contact burst on the surface, for 100 meter and 10 meter CEP. Figures 4.6 and 4.7 are similar, but for 10 kiloton, 300 kiloton, and 1 megaton earth-penetrator ...
Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council, 2005
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The Road from LosAlamos
This is not cheap, but it is a great deal less than $ 1-5 billion for the large stations alone which was mentioned in the Holifield hearings in April 1960. The system of robot stations is expected to detect and identify fully decoupled 20-kiloton tests ...
Hans Albrecht Bethe, 1991
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Kiloton Threat
When a high-ranking leader in the Iranian nuclear program wants to defect to the United States, taking with him vital nuclear intelligence, Special Forces officer Blake Kershaw is sent into Iran to extract and protect him.
‎2011
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The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the ...
0 On October 20, 1962, with final planning in place for the naval blockade of Cuba (whose consequences were still far from certain), the United States began this dangerous game by conducting a 6-kiloton nuclear test (Checkmate) from ...
James Moltz, 2011
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NATO in the First Decade after the Cold War
NATO AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE COLD WAR The first small, i.e. kiloton -size1, nuclear bombs are thought to have arrived in Western Europe early in 1952. Thereafter the stockpile of so-called 'Theatre Nuclear Forces' (TNF) grew ...
Martin A. Smith, 2000
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Development of Repetitive Kiloton Thrusts of Milliseconds ...
A test device for reproducing thrusts of up to approximately 2 x 10 to t e 6th power lb with concurrent pressures of 50,000 psi is described.
C. W. EGAN, J. P. PURTELL, ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE WASHINGTON D C., 1962

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KILOTON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kiloton is used in the context of the following news items.
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Inside Albania's Secret Nuclear Bunkers - The Daily Beast
The site was built to withstand the blast of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb, similar to the one dropped on Hirsoshima. That no longer necessary, ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
Bob Askey: How the bomb changed the world - Longmont Times-Call
The 21-kiloton bomb gave then-President Truman better bargaining power in his Potsdam meeting with Premier Josef Stalin of Russia and ... «Longmont Times-Call, Jul 15»
3
The End of the World as We Knew It, And I Feel... | Rachel Bronson
Today, as Stephen Star, Lynn Eden and Theodore Postol have written, one 800-kiloton bomb dropped over Manhattan would create a fire zone ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
These are the 12 largest nuclear detonations in history
The device tested 70 years ago had a 20 kiloton yield, meaning it had the explosive force of 20,000 tons of TNT. Within 20 years, the US and ... «Business Insider Australia, Jul 15»
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The Soviet Union's Insane Plan to Crush NATO in Battle | The …
Soviet war plans called for dropping two 500 kiloton nuclear weapons on Vienna. Beyond trying to destroy major cities and population centers, ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
6
Trinity detonated 70 years ago, igniting atomic age
(RNN) - Thursday marks 70 years since the U.S. detonated the world's first atomic bomb, a 20-kiloton device at the Trinity test site in the deserts ... «WTOC, Jul 15»
7
Next steps in making world secure
If one relatively "small," 150-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated over downtown Philadelphia, conservative models estimate that more than ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
8
After Iran, more ways to reduce nuclear risks
If one relatively “small” 150-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated over downtown Philadelphia, conservative models estimate that more than ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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MICHAEL SWICKARD: 'Downwinders' are forgotten victims of A …
That 20-kiloton nuclear explosion was in a remote area of New Mexico 70 years ago on Thursday. The scientists wanted to be sure the device ... «Rio Rancho Observer, Jul 15»
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Column: For NM Downwinder justice delayed, denied
That twenty kiloton nuclear explosion was in a remote area of New Mexico seventy years ago this July 16th. The scientists wanted to be sure ... «Carlsbad Current-Argus, Jul 15»

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